The Faceless Woman
A famous leader during the Enlightenment by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft, once said: ‘Women [has] always understood themselves as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.” Women yet to this day, still face oppression from society towards their genders. It is in “The Awakening”, a novel written by Kate Chopin, that we can see women’s emotional turmoil when met with social injustice. Edna’s death scene reinforces the idea that women are silenced when confronted with society’s unjust portrayal of a woman's identity.
Edna’s final moment in death shows just how far she had evolved from her being a mindless doll that followed society’s every whim, to blossoming into a person